Analysis of Price Transparency via National Cancer Institute–Designated Cancer Centers’ Chargemasters for Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy

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One in 3 Americans experience financial distress as a result of medical care, and patients with cancer are twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as patients without cancer.1-3 Price transparency has been proposed as one of the potential solutions to high-cost care by empowering patients to budget for expected costs, apply for financial assistance earlier in their treatment course when required, engage in shared decision-making with their physicians around costs, and comparison shop across facilities.4

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